Sainsbury Website Offline

Here's a great excuse for when your website next goes offline. Sainbury's had its website knocked offline for several hours following a break in at the company's Internet Service Provider, Cable and Wireless. Expensive server or networking equipment wasn't the target, but copper cabling.

Spiralling global prices for scrap metals, especially copper has seen rise in metal theft. The surging price of copper has been fuelled by global demand, especially by newly emerging economic powers of China and India. With everyone now feeling the effects of global economic slowdown and surging fuel costs, it seems likely that metal thefts will continue to rise. Given that many networking components use a lot of copper, Sainsbury's may not be the last website to be affected by this.